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Exeter Excelling a Celebration of Success Message from the Rector Professor Sir Rick Trainor EXETER EXCELLING A CELEBRATION OF SUCCESS MESSAGE FROM THE RECTOR PROFESSOR SIR RICK TRAINOR leap forwards in securing xeter’s future It is with great honour and pleasure that I can announce, with gratitude to the whole Exeter community, that we have exceeded our goal of raising £45 million over the last 10 years. The Exeter Excelling campaign was launched in 2006 and, over the period leading up to our 700th anniversary in 2014 – and a little beyond – we have received support on a scale that has never before been achieved by an Oxford college. With over 4,000 alumni making a gift in this period, and support also from parents, friends, Fellows, staff and even current students, we have leapt forwards in securing Exeter’s future as it enters its eighth century. Your support has created an entirely new quadrangle for this and future generations of Exonians – the biggest single expansion of the College since its earliest years. In addition you have secured tutorial teaching and made study at Oxford an affordable option for the brightest young minds in the UK and around the world. Thank you for what you’ve done as a member of this family: for your friendship, your support, your guidance, and most of all for your passion in seeing Exeter excel. In celebrating these achievements, I know you will join with me in giving substantial credit and heartfelt thanks to Rector Frances Cairncross whose vision and leadership brought this Campaign, and indeed Cohen Quad, into existence. I have very much inherited the success that her endeavours, for which we are all grateful, have brought about. This Campaign, and in particular the resources that it brings not least with the creation of Cohen Quad, places Exeter in a position to aspire to even greater things in the years ahead. Thank you and Floreat Exon! CELEBRATING SUCCESS £113.32 62% PER YEAR The outstanding success of the Exeter Excelling campaign is due AVERAGE GIFT PARTICIPATION entirely to the generosity of the whole Exeter family: alumni Exeter’s supporters are incredibly generous with 4,662 members of the Exeter family have made parents, friends, students, fellows, and staff. This tremendous average gifts of £113.32 per year being given a gift to the College in the last ten years. This achievement, building on the early philanthropy of Walter (excluding gifts over £10,000). Many of these gifts includes alumni, parents, friends, staff, fellows de Stapeldon (1314) and William Petre (1560), is tangible have been given as regular monthly or annual and students, and shows the remarkable level of evidence of how warmly the College is regarded today and gifts with others being given as one off gifts, support and good will towards the College. Within including from our Leavers, most of whom made this, 62% of undergraduates made a gift – the the value that its members place on continuing the collegiate a gift before they graduated. highest level of support seen by any institution educational experience that has been offered here for more outside of the USA. than 700 years. Thank you for the part that you have played in ensuring that Exeter continues to flourish in its eighth century. 72% 1950s 57% 2000s THREE STRATEGIC AIMS The Exeter Excelling campaign was launched This level of giving is broadly consistent across to support three key areas identified in the the decades but with an extraordinary 72% from College’s strategy: student support, tutorial the 1950s making a gift and 57% of the 2000s support, and the collegiate environment. providing an early commitment to the College. Gifts have been divided between those spent £46m £5.4m in the year they were received, those added to the endowment to provide future income GUARANTEEING particularly for bursaries and fellowships, and THE TUTORIAL IN A those spent on capital projects such as Cohen MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT CAMPAIGN INCOME ANNUAL FUND Quad and Exeter House. When the Exeter Excelling campaign was launched The majority of donors have given to the Annual 1% OTHER in 2006, the College’s endowment was worth just Fund over the last ten years raising a sum of £5.4m £38m and so a campaign target of £45m was which has played a significant role in supporting not only considered ambitious but would also student bursaries, the tutorial system and, more £13m clearly be transformative to the lives and work of recently, early funding for Cohen Quad. current and future generations of Exonians. A decade later, this target has been exceeded with 28% the College receiving gifts and pledges of more £900,000 TRANSFORMING SECURING FINANCIAL than £46m. THE COLLEGIATE RESOURCES TO ATTRACT In 2014, the Annual Fund raised almost £900k ENVIRONMENT – LIVING £46m AND SUPPORT THE VERY AND LEARNING IN BEST STUDENTS AND in one year – the equivalent to the return on an THE HEART OF OXFORD SCHOLARS endowment of £28m. 55% 16% This dependable level of support means that the College can act, year on year, as though its endowment was significantly higher and therefore provide the outstanding support for students which £26m £7m we guarantee each year. Having world-class universities is critical to the future success THEof the United Kingdom, and more so now following the TUTORIALBrexit vote. To compete with the likes of Harvard and Yale requires funding beyond the Tfundinghe personal willingness and or capacity unique experience of the tutorial, givenof government. by leading Filling this academics gap who are actively engaged is increasingly going to require alumniin research, to share theis thebenefits finest form of teaching that can be offeredthey received to fromundergraduates. their Oxford education by giving back to support future generations. Exeter was transformationalTutorials to are uniquely enriching not just for my life opportunities so it’sstudents, an but also for tutors. When I first took up honour to support the College’sthe position of History tutor at Exeter, the idea efforts to maintain and enhancethat I might be in a position of such responsibility the tutorial system and the was daunting: I remembered how much I had quality of research undertakenlearned from my own tutors, not only about their and I encourage others to dosubject specialisms, but also about how to think. the same. I realised very quickly, however, that I would William Jackson be learning just as much from the students as 1983, Geography they might pick up from me. The fluidity and Donor – Jackson Fellow in Historyserendipity of the tutorial – a conversational form that follows the interests and ideas of those taking part – is part of its great joy. While I have a few ideas at the start of each session about the key ideas we need to cover, I can never predict where the discussion is going to go. It means that students can pursue their individual enthusiasms, and that tutors are constantly challenged to rethink their own perspective and ideas. My current work on the history of social mobility has certainly been enriched by discussing the sources I use with students who’ve offered new insights into my material. In return, I hope that they have learned something from me about how I’ve discussed my research to think critically about what they read and howUndergraduate tutorials in tutorials more often than to argue convincingly for what they believe. were the best preparation for anywhere else. It’s very graduate study. Discussing rewarding to explain and PROFESSOR CHRISTINA DE BELLAIGUE essays in tutorials enabled me to discuss my work with a variety Jackson Fellow in History construct strong, well-researched of different audiences. The lines of arguments, helped me students certainly seem to enjoy feel confident analysing and the opportunity to press me to challenging data, and ensured defend my own ideas, instead of that I was not afraid to argue the other way around. my corner in larger graduate Dr James Grant seminars. Le Rossignol-Clarendon Adam Ward Fellow in Philosophy 2011, PPE Having world-class universities GUARANTEEING is critical to the future success THE TUTORIAL IN of the United Kingdom, and more so now following the A MULTIDISCIPLINARY Brexit vote. To compete with the likes of Harvard and Yale RESEARCH requires funding beyond the ENVIRONMENT funding willingness or capacity of government. Filling this gap WHAT WE ACHIEVED is increasingly going to require alumni to share the benefits they received from their Oxford education by giving back to support future generations. Exeter was transformational to my life opportunities so it’s an honour to support the College’s £13m 591 9 efforts to maintain and enhance the tutorial system and the quality of research undertaken and I encourage others to do FUNDS RAISIED DONORS WHO FELLOWSHIPS the same. PLUS TRANSFERS SUPPORTED TUTORIAL SECURED, PLUS William Jackson FROM THE EDUCATION 2 GRADUATE 1983, Geography ANNUAL FUND TEACHING Donor – Jackson Fellow in History ASSISTANTS DIVERSITY OF ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES IN THE COLLEGE’S FELLOWSHIP AND STUDENT BODY 41 8 10 129 5,200 124 12 7 39 I’ve discussed my research Undergraduate tutorials in tutorials more often than UNDERGRADUATE GOVERNING BODY TOTAL NUMBER were the best preparation for anywhere else. It’s very STUDENT BODY (TUTORIAL AND OF TUTORIAL HOURS graduate study. Discussing rewarding to explain and (AVERAGE BY PROFESSORIAL RECEIVED BY THE essays in tutorials enabled me to discuss my work with a variety EXPECTED QUOTA) FELLOWS) UNDERGRADUATE construct strong, well-researched of different audiences. The BODY IN ONE YEAR lines of arguments, helped me students certainly seem to enjoy Humanities feel confident analysing and the opportunity to press me to Social Sciences challenging data, and ensured defend my own ideas, instead ofMathematical, Physical and Non-Life Sciences that I was not afraid to argue the other way around.
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